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Pool 例:The N Count People Swimming Small Area Money

单词 pool
音标
英[pu:l] 美[pul]
解释
n.水池;石油层;(液体等的)一滩;共同储金;vi.使形成池塘或水洼;淤积;合伙经营;采(煤等);
例句

N-COUNT
同 swimming pool
A pool is the same as a swimming pool .
例:...a heated indoor pool...室内温水泳池
例:During winter, many people swim and the pool is crowded.冬季来游泳的人很多,泳池人满为患。

N-COUNT
池塘;水池;水洼
A pool is a fairly small area of still water.
例:The pool had dried up and was full of bracken and reeds.水塘已经干涸,里面都是欧洲蕨和芦苇。
例:...beautiful gardens filled with pools, fountains and rare birds.处处可见水池、喷泉和珍稀鸟类的美丽花园

N-COUNT
(液体的)一摊;(光的)一片
A pool of liquid or light is a small area of it on the ground or on a surface.
例:She was found lying in a pool of blood...她被发现躺在一片血泊中。
例:It was raining quietly and steadily and there were little pools of water on the gravel drive...雨一直静静地下着,沙砾车道上积起了一摊摊水。

N-COUNT
备用数量;可用数目
A pool of people, money, or things is a quantity or number of them that is available for an organization or group to use.
例:The available pool of healthy manpower was not as large as military officials had expected...可用的健壮人力没有军官预计的那么多。
例:The new proposal would create a reserve pool of cash.这项新的提议将建立一个现金储备基金。

VERB
共用,聚拢(资金、知识、设备等)
If a group of people or organizations pool their money, knowledge, or equipment, they share it or put it together so that it can be used for a particular purpose.
例:We pooled ideas and information...我们集思广益,共享信息。
例:Philip and I pooled our savings to start up my business.我和菲利普把积蓄凑到一起开办了我的公司。

N-UNCOUNT
落袋台球戏
Pool is a game played on a large table covered with a cloth. Players use a long stick called a cue to hit a white ball across the table so that it knocks coloured balls with numbers on them into six holes around the edge of the table.
例:We played pool together and were good mates...我们一起打过台球,是好哥们儿。
例:The Seaman was a bar for pool players and hard drinkers...“水手”是供台球玩家和酒徒消遣的酒吧。

N-PLURAL
(下注猜足球比赛结果的)赌球
If you do the pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing correctly the results of football matches.
例:The odds of winning the pools are about one in 20 million.赌球获胜的几率大约是二千万分之一。
变形
third:pools~done:pooled~pl:pools~ing:pooling~past:pooled~

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